Jackson to write The Hobbit screenplay

Posted by on Aug 21, 2008 in Uncategorized

According to the Beeb, Peter Jackson is going to write the scripts for the new Hobbit movies, to be dir­ec­ted by Guillermo del Toro. This, I would sub­mit, is a good thing.

  • Aliya

    I read a report of this in Guardian Unlimited, and felt the oppos­ite, I have to say. Two films’ worth of The Hobbit, when there’s only one smallish book? Apparently the second film might con­cen­trate on Gandalf, or Aragon, set in the years before LOTR. In other words, a lot of made up stuff that Jackson will bulk out with slo mo.

    God save us from more slo mo. I swear if you removed the slo mo from The Return of the King there would be a 120 minute film in there that was actu­ally pretty good.

    I real­ise I might be alone in this view­point. I’ll go away now.

  • http://ianhocking.com Ian Hocking
    God save us from more slo mo.

    Amen.

    I think Jackson did a fairly good job of the films (i.e. his judi­cious fold­ing of cer­tain plot points), but you’re right — the third one did have a lot of slo-mo. And Elija Wood seemed to do little more than stare at the ring in his hand.